The more significant the accused is, in terms of the survival of our democracy, the more ironclad and formality-adhering the prosecution must be.
The wheels of justice turn slowly, and these cases are moving forward at a pretty solid clip. It's not uncommon for a murder trial to take place a year-plus after an indictment, as an example.
This will be analyzed much more closely than even a murder trial, so it is important to jump through every possible hoop.
As for smoking guns, this evidence is a fucking Napoleonic battlefield of smoking guns.
You guys remember when people invented a worldwide conspiracy about rich people eating the fear of tortured children to stay young because John Podesta emailed his staff about a pizza party?
One would think that little debacle wouldve taught the Trump team not to email their felonies in plain language.
The person in that quote has lived their entire life as a shut-in. It's the only way they could possibly think that.
This person lives in a world in which our prison systems exist. Prisons are ubiquitous, barbaric, and exist out of good intentions (removing criminality from society).
That's not at all the only example, but it's the easiest. Nationalism is evil based on love of country. War is evil as a concept, and the vast majority of wars were due to ideology or resources, and some were straight up just hate. People with the hands technically blood-free ardently supported the Khmer Rouge, for what they earnestly believed were noble reasons.
Like this whole idea is just nuts. Look right here on Lemmy. People on Lemmygrad are mostly not terrible people, they just exist in a culture that is misguided as fuck. The "Dirtbag Left" movement is reactionary movement to the general (in their view, sterilized, stale, and corporatized) cultural view that communism is a failure and a joke. By being abrasive and uncompromising, they're really campaigning for legitimacy.
Now that's really dumb, for sure, and does not work, as has been proven by their continuous isolation regardless of platform, but it is a plan that is, at least conceptually, noble.
It's irrelevant to the premise of the conversation what percentage of Christians act their religion. Your statement included all other Christians - that's false and this person was clarifying that there are indeed Christians who are actually Christian.
Christianity is not worthy of hate. It's a pacifist religion that very specifically calls for a separation of church and state, and glorifies the meek.
The problem is few human beings find that appealing, because by acting that way you lose a lot. That's the point of the religion. That's why there are so many pacifist Christian martyrs.
Hell, there being relatively few of them helps his point. The reason so many people just think "fuck man Christians are terrible" is because they only (or so close enough as to not matter) interact with shitty people who abuse Christianity for their own purpose
Meanwhile Jesus specifically cautioned against that.
Also capitalism has no bearing on what you're paid.
Like, you can work exclusively in government roles, NGOs, or co-ops and change jobs every 3 years and make vastly more than you were making when you started.
This is a description of actual events that actually happened. Nothing in my comment is an interpretation of anything whatsoever.
If you don't believe War on Drugs laws like the Crime Bill were popular, that's simply because you've done no research. The 1994 bill now seen as "racist" had 58% support in the minority community, a trend that continued for some time.
The cool thing about democracy is people can look around and say "oh shit we fucked up." All you have to do is change enough minds.
The only countries accusing China of mishandling this are its geopolitical rivals in the west. Muslim countries and the global south side with China on this.
"All the other totalitarian countries agree with our totalitarian county" lol
They should create incentive by taxing the shit out of businesses and offering tax breaks for actually offering living wages and benefits to their employees. If the “correct” answer in capitalism is to find the cheapest solution,
I think this is a novel idea and an interesting thought experiment.
If we passed this federally, I think it's most likely we see an outsourcing - to ourselves. With the market floor raised so high across the board, distortionary effects would then kick in and what I posit we'd see is a shitload of both business and consumer flight to rural areas.
Prices for rent, obviously, would go through the fuckin roof. This would cause a mass exodus to surrounding areas, but I think business investment would actually beat them, because if you're paying 60k/year anyway, you may as well put your facility in the cheapest possible location.
Businesses are already shifting toward being physically close to their suppliers/major logistics hubs, to save cost elsewhere, so big "shipping towns" (which are, essentially, a few big wholesale distributors and nothing else) could see massive investment.
What's weird for me is that this may actually help our housing situation in the medium term, as explosive growth in these areas even out demand hotspots.
Idk about high raises in labor market floors to predict much beyond that, but it's something I'll definitely check out.
These aren't completely pie-in-the-sky proposals, either. Simply tying maximum compensation for publicly owned companies would start this kind of a chain rolling, in a smaller way, I think. Labor prices would jump ludicrously just from the amount of low-skill labor employed by major companies.
Inflation would be bonkers and you can't raise interest rates too fast or you basically nuke your economy, so how this plays out for the average joe is anyone's guess. Fun to think about tho
In the US, people vote on laws, and the laws that put so many people in prison were massively popular until we realized "oh fuck there sure are a lot of people in prison and this problem isn't solved at all."
I'll take people democratically getting things wrong 100% of the time over "authoritarian regime that hasn't come for you yet"
So yes, land of the free, and free people sometimes do dumb shit.
Pizzagate is not real lol